THE PLEASURES OF LITERATURE
London: Cassel and Company Ltd., (1938). First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "'For my God-Daughter/Lucy Amelia Penny/from/her loving brother/J.C. Powys,/Nov. 22 1938." Lucy Amelia Powys (1890-1986) was the youngest of the eleven children of the Rev. C. F. Powys, vicar of Montacute, Somerset, and Mary Cowper Johnson; her siblings included the writers John Cowper Powys, Theodore Francis Powys, and Llewelyn Powys. She married Hounsell Penny, a miller, in 1911 and they had one daughter, Mary. Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper. Item #022203
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